Recent content by armoredcrawler

I know we're off topic...but c'mon the waiting is killing me! There are two ideas for the American minuteman UU based off of the Rifleman that I've liked: (a) Two free drill promos to reflect that Americans were expert marksmen/snipers, OR (b) Drafting via Nationhood only requires one...

I dunno, I've always appreciated aggressive AI because it keeps me on my toes more - if that power graph falls too low I get punished. Also, can I put in a special plea for a space race victory? We've had three straight military wins, and after all America DID complete the actual Apollo program.

I agree with Cronos, stay at emperor and give aggressive AI another go. I doubt that Saladin could have peacefully built up for so long and swept the continent so easily if aggressive AI had been enabled. Besides, here's the deal on immortal: there are three basic changes, (1) a general bump...

One thing to remember about France is that they start with both Wheel and an Animal Husbandry pre-req, so if horses are a possibility starting with Animal Husbandry for a possible chariot rush is something to keep in mind. Napoleon is an awesome medieval warmongerer (cheap vassalage and...

Step 1: move your music to Civ Copy your music files to the CustomAssets\sounds\soundtrack directory. They have to be in MP3 format (I think, at any rate WMA is no good). Step 2: prepare your mod If you haven’t already done so, copy the needed XMLs from Assets to CustomAssets: (a)...

Hi Gwil, the "BeethovenAllegretto" is the second movement of Beethoven's eighth symphony. FWIW this is famous as the "metronome" movement, the ticking you hear at the beginning and throughout the piece is supposed to be akin to the ticking of a metronome.

This is where I see things: 1. Earlier Availability. Feudalism + Construction is the consensus. 2. Later Obsolescence. Two schools of thought here: either leave it in the same branch of the tech tree but push it back to corporation or else move it to somewhere in the...

Camel Archers don't count as archers? That's dumb. I never seem to play as him so I wouldn't know.

Bears are clearly ridiculous, but the animals really do give a sense that the world is alive in the early game. I tried a few games with barbs off and hated it, outside of my borders everything seemed dead and barren. I modded all of the animals down to strength 1 movement 1, so that my...

This poll surprises me, IMHO imperialistic is an OK trait, but you really have to MM to make sure your pop 'n chops go towards settlers. Protective is either the worst trait by a little or the worst trait by far depending on the leader - if you have a UU synergy (Churchill, Mao, Qin, Saladin)...

Ah, that is a problem, thanks Krikkitone. I actually have never realized that the ONLY tech Liberalism is a pre req for is Communism...interesting...though State Property is a powerful civic to forego!

I love this thread...I too am troubled by the wimpiness of the Protective trait. I've come to terms with Imperialistic after learning to exploit it better, but whenever I draw a Protective leader through the random leader generator, I groan. My initial fix was to give 2x production of Great...

I warmonger unless I'm isolated...then its culture victory time.

I feel like PHI/IND should be okay now, given the AI changes in BTS that tend to cramp a pure builder strategy. IMHO Pericles would be the obvious choice for this combo since so many of the ancient wonders were produced by the Greeks (SoZ, Parthenon, Oracle, GL, Great Lighthouse, Colossus...